Tags: .NET

There is a very significant difference between a field and property within a class. The difference is in the behaviour of the field when defined as either a static or instance. Basically, if you create 2 instances of class which has a static field, when you change the value of that field, the values in […]

Since .Net 4.0, we no longer need to download and install the Chart Control to get charting capabilities in ASP.Net, Window Forms or WPF. This is becuase the the Charting control is now part of .Net 4.0 itself. Although all you need to know about Charting in ASP.Net can be found here I thought I […]

A blog would not be complete without an article about the differences between appending or modifying a string using the String Class versus the StingBuilder class. See, strings are immutable, which means once they are created they cannot be changed. Any time you make a modification to a string, after is has been created you […]

There are a number of ways you can do this. In this example I will use the ConfigurationManager libraries that are part of the .Net Framework. This group of methods and properties are created specifically for this purpose. I am a firm believer that every action we want to take as a programmer needs to […]

I have started working with Globalization and Localization functionality for a system I am building. I could not understand why, when I wanted to get the intellisense for the class that nothing showed up. After some time I decided to use the full name of the class to get to the methods like this: I […]

With the release of C# 3.0 came Lambda Expressions. In a previous post I searched a generic list using a delegate, this is because, perhaps, I have done so much programming with C# 2.0 that it’s just a habit now. Time to move onto better, newer things, like Lambda Expressions. In the previous example I […]

It is common to have a need to search though a generic list to know if it contains a specific value. This is where the Find() method can be used. There are many different scenarios you may encounter for searching, I will cover 2 here. The first is searching a list which contains a Class […]